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How to pregame Lent: Septuagesima, Carnival, and Shrovetide
How to pregame Lent: Septuagesima, Carnival, and Shrovetide
by Mary Rezac for Catholic News Agency
Sunday, Feb. 17 is Septuagesima Sunday, followed by Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima Sundays. Sunday kicks off Carnival season, which comes right before Shrovetide, which culminates in Shrove Tuesday - more popularly known as Mardi Gras.
“Septuagesima is kept in the personal ordinariates established by Pope Benedict XVI for former Anglicans, now within the full communion of the Catholic Church,” said Father James Bradley, a priest from the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom. “Septuagesima is still marked in the older Anglican prayer books, and is part of the Anglican patrimony preserved by Divine Worship: The Missal, used by the ordinariates,” Bradley told CNA.
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Memorial Mass for Chiara Luce Johnson and Abigail Rose Johnson
There will be a memorial Mass for
Chiara Luce Johnson
and
Abigail Rose Johnson
Tuesday, 19 February, 2019
6.30 PM
Corpus Christi Catholic Community
St Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church
89 Hasell Street
Charleston, South Carolina
Note: Wednesday School for Feb 20 is cancelled.
Holy See: McCarrick dismissed from the clerical state for abuse
The Congresso of the CDF, which investigated the accusations, has issued a decree finding McCarrick “guilty of the following delicts while a cleric: solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession, and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power”.
The Congresso has imposed the penalty of “dismissal from the clerical state”.
This decision, following the recognition by the Holy Father, is definitive and admits of no further recourse or appeal.
Read the entire article on the Vatican News site
Update: Wednesday School cancelled 20 February 2019
Wednesday School is cancelled for 20 February 2019.
Corpus Christi Updates: Septuagesima
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Abigail
From Fr. Allen:
Last night it was my great joy to baptize and confirm little Bridget and Abigail Johnson, who were born on Friday, February 8th. Today it was my very sad duty to commend to our merciful Father the soul of Abigail, who died this afternoon in the course of surgery to correct her heart defect.
There are no words for this sorrow, only trust that the Lord Jesus, who loves us and gave himself for us, who passed through the grave and gate of death so that we might live eternally in him, has gathered Abigail to himself and holds her in his loving embrace. Please pray for the Johnsons in their sorrow, and also give thanks for the safe and healthy arrival of Bridget.
I will let you know memorial and funeral Mass details as they are determined. In the meantime, to assist with meals for the Johnson family please sign up here.
O God, whose beloved Son did take little children unto his arms and bless them, give us grace, we beseech thee, to entrust Abigail to thy never‐failing care and love, and bring us all to thy heavenly kingdom: through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Letter from Fr. Allen: Septuagesima - February 14, 2019
+JMJ+
Dear Friends,
This Sunday begins the little season of Pre-Lent or "Shrovetide." These three Sundays with the funny names - Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima - provide a kind of warm-up leading to Ash Wednesday and Lent. The names themselves just refer to number of days (approximately and in round numbers) until Easter - 70, 60, and 50, respectively - but they urge us by their countdown and liturgical symbolism to begin thinking about and preparing for a holy Lent, and that so we may celebrate a joyful Easter. (This year, Sexagesima will be superseded by the Solemnity of the Chair of St. Peter, our Ordinariate's Feast of Title).
So, beginning this Sunday, Septuagesima, the liturgical color changes to penitential purple, the Gloria in excelsis is not sung, and the Alleluias drop out of the Mass - in hymns, at the Gospel (the Alleluia is replaced by a "Tract"), and in the fraction anthem ("Alleluia. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia.").
The point of these changes and of Pre-Lent itself for us to thing about how we will keep Lent. What disciplines will we undertake? How will our prayer, fasting, and alms giving - which after all are normal, year-round elements of the Christian life - be intensified? There is more to say about all of that, but that is what this season is for. In the meantime, I will leave you with a hymn that well expresses the meaning and hope of this little Shrovetide season, "Alleluia, song of gladness," which is traditionally sung in the week before Septuagesima as "Alleluias" are buried (which we did at Wednesday School last night!) to be "resurrected" at Easter:
Alleluia, song of gladness, voice of joy that cannot die;
Alleluia is the anthem ever dear to choirs on high;
In the house of God abiding thus they sing eternally.
Alleluia thou resoundest, true Jerusalem and free;
Alleluia, joyful mother, all thy children sing with thee;
But by Babylon’s sad waters mourning exiles now are we.
Alleluia we deserve not here to chant forevermore;
Alleluia our transgressions make us for a while give o’er;
For the holy time is coming bidding us our sins deplore.
Therefore in our hymns we pray Thee, grant us, blessèd Trinity,
At the last to keep Thine Easter in our home beyond the sky;
There to Thee forever singing Alleluia joyfully.
(Latin, 11th century, tr by John Mason Neale, 1861)
God bless you,
Fr Allen
Evensong & Benediction: Sunday, 24 February, 4.30PM
Evensong & Benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament
Sunday, 24 February, 4.30PM
THE SOLEMNITY OF THE CHAIR OF SAINT PETER
Titular Feast of our Ordinariate
Thou art Peter, and upon this rock
I will build my Church.
Blessed John Henry Newman to be Canonized
Blessed John Henry Newman by Sir John Everett Millais, public domain
by Edward Pentin for NCRegister.com
13 February 2019
Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman is to be canonized following a Vatican announcement on Wednesday that the Pope had formally approved a miracle attributed to his intercession.
The date of the canonization of Blessed John Henry, who will become England's first post-Reformation saint, has not yet been announced, but it is expected to take place later this year. “We are now hoping that it will be sooner rather than later,” Father Harrison said.
The founder of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in England, Cardinal Newman was one of the most prominent converts to the Catholic Church from Anglicanism in the 19th century and was a renowned preacher and theologian.